Odyssey of the West. II a classic education through the great books. From Athens to Rome and the Gospels (Modern scholar)
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This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. Each professor addresses an area of personal expertise and focuses not only on the matter at hand, but on the larger story of the links between the works and the fig... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. Thucydides's The Peloponnesian war
- Lecture 2. The rise and fall of Athens, early Greek philosophy, Xenophon
- Lecture 3. Plato's Euthyphro
- Lecture 4. Plato's Theatetus
- Lecture 5. Plato's theory of forms
- Lecture 6. Aristotle's philosophic system
- Lecture 7. Aristotle's Ethics
- Lecture 8. Alexander of Macedon and the Graeco-Roman world
- Lecture 9. Virgil's Aeneid
- Lecture 10. Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Lecture 11. Roman art and engineering
- Lecture 12. Plotinus and Neoplatonism
- Lecture 13. The Christian Bible: the Gospels
- Lecture 14. The Christian Bible: Acts and Epistles of St. Paul.